Age-related hearing loss: Ear and brain mechanisms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1170, Issue , 2009, Pages 708-717

  Frisina, Robert D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Central auditory system; Cochlea; Hearing loss; Neural processing; Presbycusis; Sensory systems

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ALDOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; POTASSIUM ION;

AGING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; BRAIN CELL; CLIMACTERIUM; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENDRITE; DISEASE MODEL; EAR; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; SENSORY SYSTEM;

EID: 68649127350     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03931.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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